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by Phillip Pearson.
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> Has anyone asked about creating sub-topics under the different topics?
> I was thinking about sub-topics under Mozilla like XUL, Gecko DOM, RDF,
> and Javascript. Is that possible?
That's not possible at the moment, but I'd argue that it's not necessary. Are those really sub-topics of Mozilla, or are they standalone topics? I'd say that XUL, RDF and JavaScript aren't tied to Mozilla, so you could make them root-level topics. The Gecko DOM is a better fit, but even then, the Gecko engine runs outside Mozilla too, so you could call it a root-level topic.
I lean towards the idea of considering all topics as equal when created, and categorising later, rather than trying to fit everything into one scheme at the start and sticking with it. And everyone categorises things differently, anyway. Coming from a programming background, I'd put XUL and RDF under "xml formats" and JavaScript under "programming languages", but Robert, as a user, sees them as sub-topics of Mozilla.
So go ahead - create topics as you like, and see how they turn out! These are still early days for the Exchange -- experiment, and see what works best :-)
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